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The wait is over. Senator Al Franken is the Senator from Minnesota. Three Cheers for the well deserved win. The Senate will be a better place because Seantor Franken will be there. We need some sanity in the upper house a respite from the comedy that has been going on there.
MINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) – Democrat Al Franken will be declared the winner of the tight U.S. Senate contest in Minnesota, emerging from a ballot recount with a slim margin over Republican Norm Coleman, a state official said on Sunday.
Coleman, the incumbent, is expected to challenge the result in court, and could demand a second recount based on disputes over lost ballots, accusations of double-counting of votes, and the inclusion of some previously excluded absentee ballots in the recount.
“Franken is 225 votes ahead,” after the final ballots were tabulated over the weekend, said John Aiken, a spokesman for Minnesota Secretary of State Mark Ritchie.
Franken, 57, is a well-known satirist who wrote for and starred on NBC television’s long-running comedy show “Saturday Night Live,” and more recently hosted a liberal radio show before running for Senate from his home state.
Ritchie, a Democrat, has overseen the weeks long recount of some 2.4 million votes cast for the pair in the November 4 race, which Coleman initially captured by a narrow margin, necessitating the recount under state law.
Ritchie is a member of the state’s Canvassing Board that sifted through hundreds of ballots contested by the two campaigns.
The board will reconvene at 2:30 p.m. CST (2000 GMT) on Monday to certify Franken as the winner, Aiken said.
“I don’t know if there is going to be a contest,” or a court challenge of the result, Aiken said, adding the board had tried to keep the process as transparent as possible.
Senate Republicans have pledged not to seat Franken provisionally while the contest is still in doubt. Democratic senators have urged that Franken be seated, which would expand the party’s majority to 58 of the 100 members.
President-elect Barack Obama’s vacant Senate seat in Illinois is still in limbo, with the Senate’s Democratic leadership promising not to seat Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s appointee, Roland Burris, due to the taint of corruption charges hanging over the governor that include charges he tried to sell the seat for campaign cash or jobs.Franken to be declared Senate victor in Minnesota Sun Jan 4, 2009 9:41pm ESTBy Todd Melby.(Writing by Andrew Stern, editing by Jackie Frank)
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